MG newbie HI! Have a few questions

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Mud_Blood Sayre, OK(Zone 7a) May 20, 2006

I bought cypress vine and moonflower seeds last winter and I was wondering if it is too late to direct sow them and still have them bloom.

I also winter sowed some of the moonflower seeds (just never got around to starting the cypress vine...doh!). The moonflowers are growing nicely in the bottom half of a 2L pop bottle but they cant stay there all summmer so after reading that they dont like to be transplanted, I'm not sure what to do with these.

I was thinking that I could just dig a hole that is the same size as the pop bottle and slip as best as I could the whole thing, soil, roots and all out of the bottle and put it in the hole then back fill it. Would that work or is there a better way that one of you more experienced growers could give me?
Thanks in advance!
Kelly in OK

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heidi2005 Tucson, AZ(Zone 10b) May 20, 2006

Dear Kelly,

I started several moonflower and chocolate morning glory plants indoors in early March in a Gardeners.com seedstarter kit (little tray with ~2x2" pockets for the seeds), then transplanted them a week later to a couple nursery style 6 pack plastic cartons and then in early April transplanted the 4 best-looking ones of each variety to 2 10" pots using basically the method you propose--popping the seedling out of its current container with as little fumbling as possible into the new site. They are all doing fine; here is a photo of them in one of the pots (chocolate MG in right foreground and left background, Moonflowers in left foreground naughtily crawling into a nearby bush (gotta retrain that tomorrow) and in right background properly growing up the provided bamboo trellis)

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Mud_Blood Sayre, OK(Zone 7a) May 22, 2006

Thanks Heidi!

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